Armand told the truth

The thing about the Witch Hat Atelier world is that the magic system sounds great until you realize it's essentially programming and that sobers you up immediately. Sure, maybe you reach the level of skill needed to draw perfect curves, straight lines, and circles without looking down, but after that you still need to be able to logic out which combination of sigils will actually give you the desired effect, and if you misplace a single line it all goes to shit. Add to that the inclusion of effect-altering inks and you start to understand why Olruggio is Like That.

Given that Eric likes to post silly pics with Assad or even Assad himself without him, and Eric is so much like Daniel anyways, I hc that Daniel does post a lot of pics of Armand without Armand even knowing, nice pics, silly pics, weird pics even, and all his fans and haters in his comments are like "there he goes again showing off his hot controversially young bf"/"stooooop we get it you're in love, remember when you had a serious account?"/"the age gap discourse under every post is taking years off my life"/"this account used to expose governments". And this is how Louis and Lestat keep up with Armand because they want to but they don't want to talk to him nor they want him to know that they do keep up with him. Also somewhat related, somewhat not, Assad's instagram feed is so aesthetic?? Anything he posts about IWTV/TVL actually kinda ruins the vibes he's been curating so hard lmao. Very Armand-coded actually, all this polish and perfection with the sporadic imperfection slipping through the cracks.

Mutual pining is great, but you know what's even better? Mutual pining where they're both fully aware the feelings are requited, they just can't do anything about it for other reasons. Or maybe they technically could but they've had to choose not to, because of The Circumstances.

sex literally isnt real can everyone stop